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The University of QueenslandenFez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssAn investigation into ego-depletion, social norms, identification, and their interactive effect on how people deal with interpersonal conflicthttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:275628
Previous research has shown that ego-depletion (i.e., temporarily lowered self-control) leads to an increase in aggressive responses to provocation. The present study aimed to investigate how ego-depletion may interact with social norms for dealing with conflict, and group identification, to affect how people choose to respond to interpersonal conflict. A sample of 132 university students participated in the study which utilised a 2 by 3 between groups design. Half of the participants completed a task to induce a state of ego-depletion, whilst the remaining participants completed a control task. Participants were then assigned to one of three norm conditions, in which they were told that Australians typically use an accommodating style of conflict management, a confrontational style of conflict management, or a control condition, in which they were not given a conflict management norm. Participants‟ levels of identification with Australia were then measured. Following this, participants read a series of conflict scenario vignettes in which they had to report how likely they would be to feel angry or intimidated, and how likely they would be to respond to the conflict with aggression or avoidance. For both aggressive and avoidant behaviour responses, significant ego-depletion times norm interactions were found. The results indicate that being in a state of ego-depletion does not necessarily make you more aggressive, but more likely to act in a way that is in keeping with the social norm. Mixed results in regards to the role of identification with Australia were found. Interpretations and implications are discussed.2012-06-12T13:41:33Z
Chalk, Vanessa An investigation into factors affecting fruit fly trapping in southeast Queenslandhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:333797
2014-06-30T14:17:57Z
Hill, Anne Robina An investigation into fatigue effects in road pavementshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222618
2010-11-26T14:20:05Z
McManus, K. An investigation into post-depositional processes at the Diamond-3 site, Central Queenslandhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:323143
2014-02-14T14:03:40Z
Birch, Shannon An Investigation into script based geometry definition in computational fluid mechanicshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:310920
2013-09-25T12:37:21Z
Smith, Mattew An investigation into siltation of the Bundaberg Harbourhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:330804
2014-05-21T15:05:40Z
Galay, V. J. (Vic) An investigation into some aspects of teacher socialisation and how teachers form attitudes toward indigenous minority childrenhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:279229
2012-08-21T15:10:21Z
Cheryl Andrews An investigation into the accurate measurement of three phrase powerhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300483
2013-05-22T12:25:09Z
Hiscock, Scott An investigation into the application of third party access pricing theoryhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:221570
2010-11-18T17:10:25Z
Woodward, Lara. An investigation in to the cause of recalibration after adaptation to auditory stimulihttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:275934
Do humans have an accurate sense of timing? For humans to determine if they caused a sensory event, an amount of accuracy is needed. For example, if you hear the sound of a stick breaking, was it due to your footfall or due to another person or animal? We can make this distinction in relation to our step and when the stick was heard to break. Our sense of timing relationships needs to be malleable as there is a delay between the physical timing of an event and when the sensory signals from that event reach the brain. A demonstration of such malleability involves having people repeatedly press a button causing a beep. If a delay is inserted between the button presses and the beeps, and is later taken away, the beeps can appear to precede the button press that caused them. There is some ambiguity regarding the events which are involved in this apparent recalibration. In this study I introduce a ballistic reach between the initiation of an action leading to a button press and the button press itself. By varying the length of the ballistic reach it is possible to discern if the critical events for causality recalibration involves the decision to initiate the action or the motor planning required to execute the action. The results suggest that the critical relationship is between the tactile signals concerning actual button presses and subsequent auditory processing. The initiation of action and the motor planning are not significant factors.2012-06-20T16:03:43Z
Kathleen Nancarrow An investigation into the causes of failure of farm dams in the brigalow belt of central Queenslandhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218357
2010-10-13T11:02:03Z
Rallings, R. A. An Investigation into the Cooling Effect of Sprinklers in a Steel Structured Building in a Fire Situationhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:364347
2015-07-08T12:54:34Z
Fox, Bartholomew An investigation into the desirability and the feasibility of the fusion of laws relating to the insolvency and dissolution of corporations and the insolvency of individualshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219114
No abstract available2010-10-26T14:07:37Z
Axford, Karen. An investigation into the effect of association and familiarity on earworms using the experience sampling methodhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:292286
Earworms are a piece of music that plays repetatively in the mind outside of conscious control (Williamson et al, 2011). This study investigates whether earworms can be experimentally induced by having participants form associations with the song and by manipulating how familiar the participant is with the song. To form associations with the song participants were required to either answer questions about how the song related to their own lives (high association) or asked to answer questions about the technical aspects of the song (low association). Participants answered these questions whilst listening to a song either twice or six times. Participants were then contacted randomly 17 times, once in every two hours block, between 8am and 8pm following the experiment to complete a survey about their earworm experiences. The results indicate that both forming personal associations with a song and being familiar with a song increases the incidences of earworms. In addition to this it was also found that the more recently participants had heard the song in the study, the more likely they were to have that song as an earworm.2013-02-25T13:53:15Z
Fowles, Lucinda An Investigation into the Effect of Colour Features on Lexical Selection in the Picture- Word Interference Paradigmhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:360991
Efficient retrieval of object names is fundamental to enabling human linguistic interaction. Theoretical models attempting to explain the mechanisms of name (i.e., lexical) retrieval differ with respect to how object concepts link to lexical representations. Decompositional models assume single conceptual features (e.g., has wings) connect directly to lexical representations (e.g., BIRD), while non-decompositional models assume words and meanings are holistically related. We tested these assumptions using the Picture-Word Interference (PWI) paradigm, in which target pictures (named aloud) are paired with distractor words. Naming latencies in PWI vary according to the semantic relationship between targets and distractors. Categorical relations increase naming latencies, while other types of semantic relation (e.g., associates) typically facilitate them compared to unrelated distractors. In two Experiments, we manipulated target-distractor relations using a single conceptual feature, object colour diagnosticity (e.g., a FROG is typically green) that has been shown to affect latencies in basic naming. High colour diagnostic (HCD) objects (e.g., SPINACH) were paired with distractor words that were either congruent (spinach), unrelated (camera), colour-related (emerald), or colour- and semantically-related via a superordinate category (e.g., crocodile and SPINACH are both living things). Significant effects of shared colour were identified with both chromatic (Experiment 1) and achromatic (Experiment 2) stimuli. Colour-related distractors increased latencies when the target shared a superordinate category (SPINACHcrocodile), and speeded naming when the super-ordinate category was absent (SPINACH-emerald). We interpret these findings as supporting decompositional accounts of conceptual representations.2015-05-27T14:08:40Z
Jensen, Kyle An investigation in to the effect of pre-lexical conceptual processing on naming latencies in the PWI paradigmhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:291930
The ability to accurately and efficiently retrieve a word from the mental lexicon is a fundamental communication skill. Theoretical models of speech production which seek to explain this skill are informed by experimental naming paradigms such as the Picture Word Interference (PWI) paradigm, in which participants name pictures of common objects as quickly and as accurately as possible whilst ignoring a superimposed distractor word. In this paradigm, different semantic relations between picture-word pairs lead to differing effects — interference for categorically related PICTURE-word pairs (e.g., MOUSE-fox), and facilitation for associatively related picture-words pairs (e.g., MOUSE-cheese) and part-whole related picture-word pairs (e.g., MOUSE-tail), compared to unrelated picture-word pairs (e.g., MOUSE-violin). Rival theoretical models of speech production (e.g., Abdel Rahman & Melinger, 2009; Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999; Mahon, Costa, Peterson, Vargas, & Caramazza, 2007) commonly assume pre-lexical conceptual mechanisms are responsible for semantic facilitation effects. Despite this common assumption, to date no PWI study has employed a manipulation of conceptual features. Thus, the aim of the current study is to investigate the effect of pre-lexical conceptual processing on naming latencies in the PWI paradigm by examining the effect of semantic feature richness of distractor words on naming unrelated pictures. Semantic features(characteristics that describe the meaning of a word) are assumed to be involved in initial computation of word meaning and it has been demonstrated that words with many semantic features are responded to more quickly than words with few semantic features in other speeded semantic tasks. A significant effect of semantic feature richness on naming latencies failed to emerge, however, un-expectedly a significant effect of number of features was observed on semantic naming errors. In addition, qualitative analysis of errors revealed that all errors were categorical or visual/structural in origin and most involved response set members.2013-02-22T10:45:06Z
Cook, Julia An investigation into the implementation of strategic alliances in small freight forwarding firms in Queensland / Vanessa Ratten.http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217446
2010-09-29T12:42:25Z
Ratten, Vanessa. An investigation into the potential for solar energy to succeed the fossil fuel super powerhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:329569
2014-05-09T14:47:07Z
Burrows, Steven An investigation into the psychological factors in schizophrenia : with a view to a more effective therapyhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219610
2010-11-02T11:07:22Z
Vickery, Leslie Tiplin. An investigation into the reform of the Chinese trade regime, with special reference to trade in agricultural products : implications for Australiahttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222265
2010-11-24T11:10:56Z
Foster, Adrian Nixon. An investigation into the relationship between income and food consumption in the rapidly growing economies of East and South-East Asiahttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:220212
2010-11-12T12:09:37Z
Armbrust, Eric K. An investigation into the structural and functional neural mechanisms involved in theory of mind impairments in stroke patients: a combined fMRI, VLSM and DTI studyhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:357026
One of the most debilitating social cognitive impairments experienced post-stroke is an impaired ability to attribute mental states to others, also known as Theory of Mind (ToM). The current study used a multi-methodological approach to investigate the functional and structural neural basis of ToM impairments in stroke patients. Using a ToM task called the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET), fMRI was used both in healthy participants and stroke patients to identify the functional network involved in ToM and how it is affected by stroke. In addition, voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) was conducted in stroke patients to determine which lesion sites are associated with poor performance on the RMET, thereby determining the critical brain regions for ToM ability. Finally, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was conducted to investigate how specific lesion sites can lead to widespread functional changes due to damaged white matter pathways. The fMRI results indicated that regions such as the posterior inferior frontal gyrus (pIFG), medial prefrontal cortex, posterior superior temporal sulcus and temporoparietal junction are involved in ToM ability, and that this functional network may be affected by stroke. Furthermore, specific lesion sites within the right frontal lobe, such as the pIFG, insula and prefrontal gyrus were associated with impaired performance on the RMET. However, the little overlap between this functional network and the critical regions for ToM, together with the DTI results, suggests that these specific lesion sites may lead to functional changes in an intact ToM network, due to the damaged white matter pathways between these areas. Therefore, this study highlights the importance of using a multimethodological approach, to achieve a better understanding of the ToM impairments2015-04-29T14:51:44Z
Horne, Kristina An investigation into transcranial Doppler ultrasonography : observer agreement of variability of data in healthy volunteers and patientshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:106082
2007-08-24T18:00:02Z
Shen, Qiaomei An investigation into using dehumidified air to reduce the cycle time of a transformer drying oven.http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:369697
2015-09-18T15:53:30Z
Denes, Aaron An investigation into various aspects of Q fever in Brisbane.http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:216756
2010-09-21T10:39:29Z
Powell, O. W. (Owen Watkins) An investigation of ammonium nitrate/carbonaceous mixtures for use as blasting agentshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:295684
2013-04-04T08:18:15Z
Aspinall, T. O. An investigation of Australian inflation : feedback measures and cyclical variationshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222457
2010-11-25T10:47:12Z
Yim, Mok Pui. An Investigation of da Vinci Stereopsis using an Alternating Frequency Paradigmhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:361130
In conventional stereopsis, depth is computed by comparing the retinal positions of features visible to the two eyes. Objects that can only be seen by one eye can also be perceived in depth. One form of this phenomenon is called da Vinci stereopsis. Stereoscopic depth perceived in da Vinci stereopsis is argued to be the result of inferences based on occlusion geometry, or a special case of conventional disparity-based stereopsis. The current study aimed to contribute to this debate by comparing participants’ ability to perceive depth in da Vinci stimuli compared to conventional stereoscopic stimuli when the binocular stimuli were presented alternately to the two eyes. This paradigm has previously identified differences in participants’ perceptions between stereopsis and binocular luster (a configurationally similar phenomenon to da Vinci stereopsis). I hypothesized that if da Vinci stereopsis is based on occlusion geometry, participants would require significantly faster rates of alternation in order to perceive depth correctly than those required for correct depth perception from conventional stereoscopic stimuli, and that if da Vinci stereopsis is based on double matching, no significant difference would be expected between the da Vinci stimuli and the conventional stereoscopic stimuli. I also hypothesized that if da Vinci stereopsis is based on occlusion geometry, participants would be able to tolerate a significantly smaller interocular delay before the impression of depth was lost for da Vinci stimuli than for conventional stereoscopic stimuli, and that if da Vinci stereopsis is based on double matching, no significant difference would be expected between the da Vinci stimuli and the conventional stereoscopic stimuli. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 do not support occlusion geometry as the underlying mechanism behind da Vinci stereopsis. This may be interpreted as support for double matching, or evidence of methodological issues masking a significant effect.2015-05-28T15:16:42Z
Jasper, Jesse An investigation of day-of-the-week effects on stock returns on the Brisbane stock exchange during the period 1974 to 1977http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:221731
2010-11-19T16:04:34Z
Valassakis, Nick. An investigation of dynamic regression for analytical reviewhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218767
2010-10-20T11:40:12Z
Bryant, Kay C. An investigation of environmental disclosures of Australian mining companies in response to Ok Tedi copper mine disaster : a legitimacy perspectivehttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217603
2010-10-01T10:19:53Z
Lee, Yuen Yuen. An investigation of industry classification as a proxy for information availability and the small firm effecthttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219854
2010-11-06T12:00:59Z
Brady, Stephen R. An investigation of international transmission of U.S. monetary policy : foreign equity marketshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217998
2010-10-07T11:39:58Z
Jing, Leong Lin An investigation of MOSFET degradation using three measurement techniqueshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:363783
2015-06-25T09:03:07Z
Clarke, Russell An investigation of piecewise-continuous differential equations with given switching properties and related topicshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218247
2010-10-11T16:47:50Z
Johnman, Ann. An investigation of plate-filter performance : and applications to model simulation of Wave-generated currentshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218328
2010-10-12T17:51:22Z
Waller, W. R. An investigation of repetitive negative thinking and maladaptive metacognitive beliefs in body dysmorphic individualshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:386275
2016-05-04T15:03:55Z
Hyde, Jamiah An investigation of some aspects of the biology of flick weed Cardamine flexuosa from nurseries in Australiahttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:258622
2011-10-21T14:58:25Z
Ozanne, Trevor Douglas. An investigation of some stimuli influencing host finding and oviposition behaviours of the Queensland fruit fly, Dacus (Bactrocera) tyroni (Frogg.)http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:313547
2013-11-07T10:54:38Z
Eisemann, C. H An investigation of tax-induced dividend effects in the Singapore equity markethttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:244920
2011-08-02T12:50:42Z
Mohamed Ariff, 1942- An investigation of the adoption of soft systems methodology : an innovation diffusion theory perspectivehttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217505
2010-09-29T17:25:09Z
Sihota, Jagjeet. An investigation of the causes of new product failurehttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223165
2010-12-01T19:31:19Z
Sim, Lee Yew. An investigation of the criteria for good decomposition: the Wand and Weber model applied to the functional decomposition approachhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219839
2010-11-06T11:30:03Z
Donaldson, Jeannie. An Investigation of the Effects of Changing Strip Width and Bench Height on Two Pass Dragline Productivityhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:346506
2014-12-04T13:13:04Z
Wynn, Elisabeth An Investigation of the Effects of Extrusion Parameters on the Mechanical Properties of Natural Fibre Compositeshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:373909
2015-11-23T12:47:15Z
Ziegelaar Benjamin An investigation of the effects of the human-computer interface on user performancehttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219842
2010-11-06T11:40:52Z
Cradduck, Peggy Rose. An investigation of the efficiency gains from the deregulation of the Australian banking sectorhttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218786
2010-10-20T12:56:18Z
Coren, Matthew J. An investigation of the intraweek, intramonth and January behaviour of an index of Australian stockshttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219241
2010-10-27T13:55:01Z
Lynch, A. W. An investigation of the lead-lag relationship between the All Ordinaries Share Price Index and the SPI Futures Contract traded on the Sydney Futures Exchangehttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219192
2010-10-27T11:54:57Z
Wong, Alexander H. H. An investigation of the shear strength of bagassehttp://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217643
2010-10-01T14:50:23Z
Cullen, Rodney Neville.